Tunnel Magnetoresistance in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot

• Authors: D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The out-of-equilibrium transport properties of carbon nanotube quantum dot in the Kondo regime are studied by means of the non-equilibrium Green function. The equation of motion method is used. The influence of the polarization of electrodes and orbital level splitting, as well as left-right asymmetry, on the spin polarizations of differential conductance are discussed. For zero bias voltage and orbitally degenerate states the SU(4) symmetry of Kondo state is preserved for antiparallel configuration of polarizations of electrodes, whereas it is broken for parallel. In the former case a suppression of linear conductance with increasing polarization is observed. In the latter the behaviour is nonmonotonic due to splitting of the Kondo peak and bringing closer one of the peaks to the Fermi level with increasing polarization. This gives rise to giant tunnel linear magnetoresistance for large polarization.

Keywords

EN

72.15.Qm; 72.25.-b; 73.63.-b; 75.47.-m

Discipline

• 75.47.-m: Magnetotransport phenomena; materials for magnetotransport(for spintronics, see 85.75.-d; see also 72.25.-b Spin polarized transport; 72.15.Gd Galvanomagnetic and other magnetotransport effects; for magnetotransport effects in thin films, see 73.50.Jt; see also 73.43.Qt Magnetoresistance)
• 72.15.Qm: Scattering mechanisms and Kondo effect(see also 75.20.Hr Local moments in compounds and alloys; Kondo effect, valence fluctuations, heavy fermions in magnetic properties and materials)
• 72.25.-b: Spin polarized transport(for spin polarized transport devices, see 85.75.-d)
• 73.63.-b: Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures(see also 73.23.-b Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 113
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 545-548

Dates

published

2008-01

received

2007-07-09

Contributors

author

D. Krychowski

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

author

S. Lipiński

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.113.545